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->''"Like all members of the oldest profession, I'm a capitalist."''
-->-- '''Miss Scarlett''', ''Film/{{Clue}}''

[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant No, not "semi-nomadic hunter-gatherer".]]

Prostitution and other forms of sex work: strippers, porn stars, dominatrixes, etc. This page is {{not safe for work}} in any way, shape or form, but is legal in UsefulNotes/{{Australia}}, UsefulNotes/{{Canada}}, UsefulNotes/{{Mexico}} and most of the state of UsefulNotes/{{Nevada}}.

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!!Tropes:
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* AsianHookerStereotype: a prostitute of East or Southeast Asian ethnicity.
* BalladOfASexWorker: a song about a woman in the sex industry.
* BandOfBrothels: a legal organization or union that oversees/regulates prostitution.
* ThisBedOfRoses: a prostitute gives someone a place to stay.
* CampFollower: prostitutes who follow and service soldiers during war.
* ChippendalesDancers: male strippers.
* CompensatedDating: dating older men for pay.
* DenOfIniquity: Often a brothel.
* DirtyHarriet: going undercover as a sex worker.
* DisposableSexWorker: prostitutes double as convenient murder victims.
* {{Dominatrix}}: a woman who dominates men for {{Fanservice}}.
* EliteManCourtesanRomance: a person of high rank falls in love with a sex worker.
* FallenOnHardTimesJob: a woman who suffers financial hardship may turn to sex work to stay afloat.
* FamilyFriendlyStripper: a stripper wears an elaborate and theoretically sexy costume that covers just about everything.
* FreestateAmsterdam: Characters go to Amsterdam for legal sex workers and drugs.
* HandyFeet: It's not uncommon for a [[AlwaysFemale female adult film star/prostitute]] to use her feet to please men instead of using her hands.
* HappyEndingMassage: a brothel called a massage parlor.
* HighClassCallGirl: She's not a prostitute, she's a ''courtesan.''
* HookersAndBlow: depraved drugs and sex.
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: a kind-hearted sex worker (usually a love interest).
* HumanTraffickers: People who sell humans, often times for sexual purposes.
* MissKitty: An older woman who runs a brothel.
* MistakenForProstitute: someone is mistaken for a prostitute.
* NeedAHandOrAHandjob: solicitation is mistaken for an offer of help.
* PimpDuds: Usually [[AlwaysMale male pimps]] displayed with flamboyant and sometimes bizarre fashion choices.
* PimpingTheOffspring: A parent pimps out their own child.
* PinkIsErotic: The color pink is used to indicate arousal, attraction, eroticism, and scenes of a sexual nature.
* PlatonicProstitution: a character consorts with a sex worker for non-sex-related purposes.
* PleasurePlanet: Some science fiction settings will have a RedLightDistrict in space.
* PornCreatorGoingMainstream: A performer or creator tries to transition to mainstream content from porn.
* PredatoryProstitute: An evil, cruel, and/or further criminal sex worker.
* ProfessionalSexEd: a prostitute is hired for someone's first time.
* PsychosexualHorror: A subgenre that explores psychosexual development as a subject matter, including themes of sexual development and sexual activities.
* RedLightDistrict: an area of a city known for sex work.
* SchoolOfSeduction: trade school for sex workers.
* SecretSexWorker: A character is LivingADoubleLife, hiding that they are a sex worker from those closest to them, typically out of fear of social rejection, condemnation, and/or being arrested for engaging in a criminalized profession.
* {{Sexbot}}: When the sex worker is a robot.
* SexForServices: a trade between sexual favors for non-sexual favors.
* SexSlave: a slave whose main service is sexual labor (not technically a prostitute, as prostitute is defined by being paid).
* SexTourism: a character goes on vacation primarily to have sex.
* ShadyLadyOfTheNight: a prostitute who's involved in other criminal activites, usually not on her own accord.
* SingleMomStripper: a single mother who moonlights as a sex worker of some kind.
* SonOfAWhore: a character whose mother is or was a prostitute.
* {{Streetwalker}}: a prostitute who walks the street in order to find clients.
* UnproblematicProstitution: being a whore is awesome!
* TheWickedStage: a {{forgotten trope}} where theater actresses = prostitutes.
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